A series of disruptive strikes, growing discontent among workers, and escalating strike action, drawing in hitherto uninvolved sectors of the public services, has…

General practice in England, as in the rest of the UK, is in a “crisis” and indeed has been so for many years,…

The outburst of violence on Sunday, 8 January 2023, in Brasilia, Federal capital of South America’s largest nation, seemed inevitable. Throughout his term…

On 4 January 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of the year, shared his vision of an England in…

 Nearly three years to the day when the latest global pandemic was declared by the WHO, on 11 March 2020, COVID remains a…

From 21 December 2022 onwards, a large expanse of the continental US, extending from the Great Lakes in the north to the Rio…

   An out-of-season increase in Group A streptococcal infections, including scarlet fever, has become headline news in England and is also a source…

It is common knowledge that the supply of new homes in England, for both owner-occupiers and renters, has failed to cope with rising…

November 2022 has proved to be a particularly difficult month for Meta, the parent company of social media platform Facebook, and its Chief…

Ever since it first declared itself in October 2021, Britain’s largest-ever outbreak of avian influenza (AI), better known as bird flu, continues to…